The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-28
r,rT17ATENED MEN
Comparison Of New and Old Styles of
Murder.

article Oh tho recent attempts to
,,,,rdor th, Car, the London World says:
r.;s in truth an exceedingly rare thing
Co.. sovereign to pass through reign of
.,,, considerable duration III entire immu-
a;+, from attempted assassination. But,
oI+bonah soyereigus often have very narrow
,,oe If is marvellous how seldom their
eS.ailonts actually succeed in killing them.
95S''.i,,o fine whole of the current century,
~ ~ +6o execution of the Emperor Paul and
tba Snltan Abdul-Aziz, who were both of
Nom murdered by conspirators within
t the nalace itself, the Emperor Alexan-
der II. is the only European mon
BIT the list Of unsuccessful attempts of
n,bicb Fmperors, Kings and Queens have
hean the object in that period is so long that
= i extremely difficult even to remember
tbam all, OF reigning sovereigns our au-
,,e+ Oueen herself has been shot at twice
tba German Emperor twice, and
once wounded, the Emperor of Austria
once and the King of Italy once. The life
NJ the late King of Spain was attempted
Il twice. and that OF his motner, queen 1Sa-
Il Lila twice-once by Stabbing and once by
shooting. But, as might be anticipated, it
81 i in France that these crimes have been of
Il most common occurrence. The life of Ma
nolpon III. was attempted at least half a
q 5ozan times. while no fewer than nineteen
atte1npts-on an average one for every year
of his reicn-was made on the life of Louis
Il Philippe. the Citizen King.
If we waive our claim to priority in the
q "gunpowder treason and plot, 1t IS to the
n TTench or rather to the Italians i'll France,
that fine world is indebted for the introduc-
81 ton of improved methods for the purpose of
u noItica1 murder as compared with the old
u Fashioned dagger or pistol. The change was
III initiated bv the use of a couple of chests of
Il punpowder placed on opposite sides of the
81 road and connected by wire, by the ten
a zion of which they might be simultaneously
al limited by Arera and Gerachl as a trap for
~ the first Consul as he drove from st. Cloud
VI 10 Paris one evening at the end of the year
ID 1890 But the explosion which occurred in
a due course did no harm to Gen. Bonaparte
n himself. although it killed or wound
81 ed the positions who were riding
! immediately in front of him. Later
4 on the first Napoleon was equally fortunate
II as Emperor in escaping injury from the
d hand-grenades which Georges Cadoudal and
n his confederates threw into his carriage as
4 be was driving out Of the Tuileries in 1904.
Not less innocuous, SO far as the person
whose destruction it was intended to ac-
q complish was concerned, was the Internal
u machine, now in the chamber of horrors at
n Mime Tussaud'S. which the COrSican Fieschi
#employed against Louis Philippe, as he was
Mrding from the Champ de Mars to the Tuil-
N cries with his staff at a review in 1885. 1t
n killed Marshal Mortier, who was close to the
n King, and scattered death pretty literally
III among the crowd of sightseers. But neither
Louis Philippe nor his horse was
wounded by the discharge. 1t
IA was. however, very near shave, in COM
parison with which the eighteen other at
tempts on his lie count almost as nothing.
Louis Phlippe's escape from Fieschi's in
fernal machine in 1885, indeed, was only
paralleled by Napoleon Ill. S escape from
Orsini's bombs in 1858. Nothing but the
cowardice of Orsini's accomplices, Pietri,
Rudio and Gomez, saved the Emperor.
Each of the assassins was provided with
two bombs, and, if the whole eight of them
had been exploded, the Emperor would GER
tainly have been killed. Orsini threw both
his bombs and Pietri one of his under the
Emperor's carriage, but Rudio and Gomez
ran away with theirs as soon as they
heard the explosion. As it was,
five persons were killed and nine
3 wounded. All the imperial escort were
bruised and cut Hundreds of windows in
the streets around the opera house were
broken, and the gas was extinguished. But,
although their carriage was smashed, the
<SiAlPNlSl oiHl cSS were DOlH albDRGJucI
unlnjured. Nor can it be doubted that, if
the Emperor Alexander H. had driven off,
Us he was advised to do, after the explosion
of the first dynamite she'll which was aimed
at MIN ON the day of his death in 1881, he,
TOO, would have escaped. 1t was in alight-
ing from his carriage and attempting to
confront his original assailant that he gave
the second conspiratOr in the crowd the OPP
portunIty which he fastened to seize with
such fatal results.
All things considered, it is questionable.
perhaps, whether the new-fangled instru-
thehtS OF assassination are much more
trustworthy III their practical operation
Ilah those which they have been gradully
N# supaseIlng. Of course it is open to any
nouy VINO Is armed with dynamite she'll to
81 liNoFe himself and all who happen to be
cloSe 10 nun IN common destruction If
gl" lhaielactor were to rush into the
iiohe OF Commons, for example, and OK
8 pi"le Domb charged with a pound or two
Of nitro glycerine or Hthofracteur on the
lane he, the Speaker, and the occupants Of
NV TWO lfont benches at least would be
.loNn INTO pieces. But for out door Use
10 may ne doubted whether the old fashioned
III ana pistol i'll the hands of a
agoltte man. ON the whole, are the most
5ltctiYe OF all lethal weapons. What can
" ". accomplished with them was amply illus
Jsi ~. ~ ult cases or Lord Frederick Caven-
o o.a n anu Mr.. Burke, of President Lincoln
and President Garfield AGAINST them how
9er, the vigilance of the Russian police
s sIy De trusted to protect the Gar, and it
tbot "a anord him some consolation to reflect
SAt tne other ''devilish enginery" of the as
T'S sl Is by no means infallible in its action.
bn = at all events to be satisfactory for
s ~ui 70 know that of the six memorable oc-
r aaon n on which it has been brought into
pno III II mas failed on FIVE, and that on the
alo VI " wtllch 1T succeeded it would also have
iallHl II the Nirfit,, LoJ